Chapter #3
{2 days ago}
One man, Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark a billionaire industrialist, a genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. With his great wealth and exceptional technical knowledge, was having a hard time in a certain cave in the middle of a hot desert in Afghanistan. He just finished presenting his newly developed weapon named 'Jericho' when suddenly a group of insurgents named 'Ten Rings' ambushed their convoy and gunned down all the soldiers that were guarding him to return to the United States Armed Forces base.
After being held in captivity by the Ten Rings for 3 months, Tony Stark and Ho Yinsen managed to build a battle suit powered by the miniature Arc Reactor in secret using the materials that the Ten Ring provided for them.
[Tony Stark POV]
CLANG!*
CLANG!*
'It's been 3 months of this hell... I've waited enough. They're getting impatient, we need to scape now' was what I thought while I struck my hammer down on a piece of metal.
CLANG!*
With a last hit, I use the tongs to hold it and held it underwater to cool down
SIZZLE*
I pick it up and showed it to my partner and savior, Yinsen.
We're ready.
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[Third POV]
Whirring~
A mechanical sound and ragged breathing were the only things that could be heard in the cave as Yinsen prepared Tony to wear the battle suit, ready to escape their captors
"Okay...you hook" Yinsen said to Tony Stark while demonstrating something to him.
Tony Stark clenched his hands trying to test its mobility in the suit.
"Okay, say it again" Yinsen said as he prepared to adjust the suit's adjustments.
"41 steps straight ahead, 16 steps that's from the door fourth right, 33 steps turn right" Stark replied to him in a series of numbers and direction(That I have no idea what's about)
"Yinsen! Yinsen!" The terrorist shouted to Yinsen who was busy adjusting Stark's suit. They continued their shouting in Hungarian as Tony and Yinsen were talking
"Say something, say something" Tony hurriedly whispered to Yinsen while in his suit
"He's speaking Hungarian, I don't-" Yinsen said only to be cutdown by Tony
"Then speak Hungarian." Tony said to the panicking Yinsen
"Okay, I know" Yinsen replied as he thought of what to say in Hungarian
"What do you know" Tony asked to Yinsen
"Egy perc! Egy perc!" (Translation: One Minute!) Yinsen shouted only to be met by a sound of shouting terrorist as they opened the door not knowing that's it's been rigged with explosives.
BOOM!*
"How did that work," Tony asked Yinsen trying to not panic.
"Oh my goodness...it work though right?" Yinsen replied with a question to Tony which Tony replied by saying,
"That do," as Yinsen proceeded to fix the suit's adjustment.
After adjusting his suit, Yinsen check the progress bar on the computer and saw that it is still halfway finished.
"We need more time..." Yinsen muttered in realization as he turned to face Tony.
"Hey, I'm gonna go buy you some time." He said to Tony with a look of resolved.
"Stick to the plan! Stick to the plan! Yinsen!" Tony shouted to Yinsen as Yinsen picked a gun on the floor and fired it randomly while shouting.
Sometime later a sound of gunshots rang inside a cave as the terrorist fought a giant mechanical humanoid robot, it's sheer strength and bulletproof exterior made them defenseless and vulnerable causing for them to die a horrible death.
As Tony battled through the cave with a bunch of terrorist, he finally caught a sight of Yinsen, lying down in a bunch of sack, bleeding to death...
"Yinsen!" Tony shouted worriedly,
"Watch out!" Yinsen warns him as a rocket flew towards where Tony is, but thankfully Tony managed to dodged it by moving sideways which save his life.
Tony saw Raza, their captor who was holding a rocket launcher and he responds to him by initiating a mechanism in his arm that contains a rocket which he aimed to Raza and fired it to him.
After immobilizing Raza, Tony went to where Yinsen is and toss away the sacks that is covering him.
"Stop..." Yinsen said with tired voice.
"Come on. We gotta go. Move with me. We got a plan. We need to stick to it."
"This was always the plan, Stark."
"Come on. You're gonna go see your family. Get up."
"My family's dead... I'm going to see them now...Stark. It's okay... It's okay... I want this. I want this." Yinsen said to Tony with a look tranquility written on his face.
"...Thank you for saving me."
"Don't waste it. Don't waste your life." Yinsen said to Tony with a look resigned on his face seemingly accepting his fate.
A look of anger flashed on Tony's face.
'You bastard, you think I would leave you right here dying' Tony thought as he removed a mechanism near his plated-chest area and took a strange white pouch.
'That old man Spectre gave this prototype schematics design to me as a new project for our company's collaboration, thankfully I managed to make a lesser version of it in a cave in case a flight error occured in my flight. I hope Yinsen can somehow survive using this.' Tony thought to himself as he hope for Yinsen's survival.
Tony placed the pouch to Yinsen's chesh and punched it hard.
Clink*
Clink*
Sounds of glasses were heard as the pouch expanded, its texture were glasses-like with a hexagonal shape structures. It expanded, covering Yinsen's whole body and once it fully covered him, it compressed his body tightly causing Yinsen's bullets holes to be covered and his bleeding to stop.
Once Tony made sure Yinsen is safe, he made his way towards the exit of the cave, each his steps were loud and heavy.
When his figure were finally basked in sunlight, a dozen man waited for him outside of the cave, each of them holding their own guns aimed at him ready to shoot.
With a shout as they're signal they fired their guns at Tony simultaneously.
BANG!*
BANG!*
BANG!*
Stopping their attempt, they were stunned and speechless as they took a step back and looked at the massive mechanical robot, which was undamaged and still standing...
"My turn" Tony said without remorse then all hell breaks loose.
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{Present}
As the three friends arrive at their school hallways they were greeted by a man named Eugene Thompson, a.k.a Flash Thompson, the captain of the basketball team.
"Yo, hey Pete, I just want to thank you for visiting us this weekend, mom really is thankful for what Uncle Ben did to dad, I thought we were a goner man" Flash said with a smile on his face as he addressed Peter.
"You're welcome man, I'm glad I was able to help someone, especially our friend, that's already good for me" Peter replied, also with a smile on his face as he pat Flash on the back.
Flash Thompson is a semi-bald man with a sporty build due to his favorite sport, which is basketball. Flash had a terrible childhood life due to an abusive home life from his father, who was a Vietnam veteran turned alcoholic. Flash is also a childhood friend of Peter, Luke and MJ.
When they were in the park one day, they noticed Flash playing basketball alone on the court, and Luke, being a former basketball player in his previous life, decided to join him. As Luke managed to befriend him, Peter and MJ decided that a friend of their friend is also a friend of them that's why they are able to form a friendship with him easily which made Flash eager and happy because he have two more good friends added to his life, preventing Flash from becoming the fated high school bully of one Peter Parker.
In the course of their friendship, Luke managed to find out about the abusive home life of Flash Thompson, which led him to tell Peter and MJ about Flash's situation.
Peter who found out about it, was frustrated but quickly thought of how to help Flash. Peter decided that a problem of an adult should be solved by an adult.
That's why he decided to tell it to his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, who's a good listeners, they then decided to go to Flash Thompson's house to talk some sense into his father.
One session of their make-do-therapy resulted in Thompson Sr. having a job as a special volunteer in a charity group initially run by Martin Li named F.E.A.ST. Of course, not before being punched by Uncle Ben because of how he treated his family. He also said, and I quote, 'You don't do that to family' pulling a Vin Diesel meme out of nowhere even though there's no Fast and Furious franchise in this world, leaving a gobsmacked Luke for a few days.
"I know man...but still, thank you. If it weren't for the three of you, I don't know what would have happened to me...so thank you." Flash said sincerely to the three of them making the atmosphere warm and fuzzy.
"Awww Flash~ you're making me cry, sniff*" MJ added as she playfully wiped her eyes seemingly crying. "Come here you~" she continued as he grabbed Flash's head and playfully rubbed it with her fist.
"Stop it MJ! It hurts you know?" Flash whined though MJ still continued at her silliness.
"HAHAHAHA"
The laugh of the four friends echoed in the hallways of the school as they cherished their friendly moments, unaware of the troubled fates that each of them hold.
//A/N: What do you think of the story so far? Anything that I can improve or what? Give me some of y'all wisdom!//